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A Better Miami Dade Inc

The corporation shall be a corporation not-for-profit pursuant to chapter 617 florida statutes, formed and operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare.

$1.9M
Granted FY2020
8
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$720k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182020.

Public Benefit$2.2MEnvironment$645kCommunity Improvement$318kFood & Nutrition$223kCivil Rights$200kEmployment$100kAnimals$50k
02FY2020 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $660k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$222,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTH FLORIDA ANTI-CORRUPTION TASK$720,000
FLORIDA WATCH INC$300,000
FLORIDA CONSUMER ALLIANCE INC$250,000
GROW UNITED INC$222,500
FL FOR AFFORDABLE RELIABLE ENERGY$215,000
KEEP OUR CONSTITUTION CLEAN INC$150,000
THE PEOPLE OVER PROFITS FL$72,500
AMERICAN INTEGRITY FOUNDATION INC$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GREY 2K USA WORLDWIDE INC: $50k → 8%COLLECTIVE FUTURE: $200k → 14%THE PEOPLE OVER PROFITS FL: $245k → 13%KEEP OUR CONSTITUTION CLEAN INC: $150k → 13%AMERICAN INTEGRITY FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 15%FLORIDA CONSUMER ALLIANCE INC: $250k → 19%JOBKEEPER ALLIANCE: $100k → 18%CONSUMER POLICY LEAGUE: $100k → 7%GROW UNITED INC: $223k → 12%CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT OF INTEGRITY: $110k → 14%THE PEOPLE OVER PROFITS FL: $73k → 13%SOUTH FLORIDA ANTI-CORRUPTION TASK: $720k → 15%FL FOR AFFORDABLE RELIABLE ENERGY: $430k → 19%FL FOR AFFORDABLE RELIABLE ENERGY: $215k → 19%LET'S PRESERVE THE AMERICAN DREAM: $394k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 3 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -51% since the first grant, against -53% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

$1.3M
$954k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-51%
-53%

Still filing today

0%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20
EducationPublic BenefitSocial ScienceAnimalsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • FF
    FLORIDIANS FOR AFFORDABLE RELIABLE ENERGY INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $645k · 96% of their budget
  • TP
    THE PEOPLE OVER PROFITS FL
    2× · 2019–2020 · $318k
  • KO
    KEEP OUR CONSTITUTION CLEAN INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $300k · revenue -51% · 59% of their budget

Funded once

  • TA
    THE AMERICAN PROMISE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $394k · revenue -53%
  • CF
    COLLECTIVE FUTURE
    one grant, 2018 · $200k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT OF INTEGRITY
    one grant, 2018 · $110k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Floridians for Tax Fairness

Voter education and awareness

2
Floridians for Tax Fairness Inc

The organization's exempt purpose is political advocacy, to promote awareness and fairness in florida and in the united states taxation.

3
Florida Alliance for Civic Engagement Inc

None

Public Benefit
4
Florida Beer Wholesalers Association Inc

To provide a clear line of communication and response between the industry and the decision policy makers and regulators at the state level, cooperate with and assist the department of business and professional regulation and all…

5
Florida Advancement Project Inc

None

6
Florida Federation of Garden Clubs Inc

Further the education of members and the public in the fields of gardening, horticulture, botany, and conservation.

Environment
7
Florida Public Pension Trustees Association Inc

Educate public pension trustees and administrators.

8
Florida Hospital Association Inc

Develop & promote health care education, information & consultationprograms and services that enhance the quality of health care providedin florida.

9
Florida Firefighters Charities Trust

Provide fire prevention education to the general public and humanitarian aid to those who are victims of natural or manmade disasters. to give back to other 501(c)3 organizations who help the general public of our communities within the…

Philanthropy
10
Acronym Inc

To increase civic and electoral engagement across the country through the creation and sustainability of culturally competent, community driven digital and communications infrastructure, messaging, and content that learns from, speaks to,…

11
Keep Florida Clean Inc

Advocate against and oppose the passage of constitutional amendment 3 in the state of florida that would have legalized marijuana for possession, purchase, and recreational use in florida for adults 21 years or older.

12
Professional Opticians of Florida Inc

The professional opticians of florida is dedicated to enhancing the competency of opticians, advancing the profession of opticianry, and working to resolve the governmental policy issues affecting opticianry.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is GREY2K Usa Worldwide Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/8
Grantees still filing
1/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOUTH FLORIDA ANTI-CORRUPTION TASK — $720,000 · OtherSOUTH FLORIDA ANTI-CORRUPTION TASKFLORIDIANS FOR AFFORDABLE RELIABLE ENERGY INC — $645,000 · OtherFLORIDIANS FOR AFFORDABLE RELIABLE ENERGY INCTHE PEOPLE OVER PROFITS FL — $317,500 · OtherTHE PEOPLE OVER PROFITS FLKEEP OUR CONSTITUTION CLEAN INC — $300,000 · OtherKEEP OUR CONSTITUTION CLEAN INCGROW UNITED — $222,500 · OtherGROW UNITEDCOLLECTIVE FUTURE — $200,000 · OtherCOLLECTIVE FUTURECENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT OF INTEGRITY — $110,000 · OtherCONSUMER POLICY LEAGUE — $100,000 · Other+1 more — $10,000 · OtherFLORIDA WATCH INC — $300,000 · EducationFLORIDA WATC…JOBKEEPER ALLIANCE — $100,000 · EducationJOBKEEPER AL…THE AMERICAN PROMISE INC — $394,000 · Social ScienceTHE AMERICAN…FLORIDA CONSUMER ALLIANCE INC — $250,000 · Public BenefitGREY2K USA WORLDWIDE INC — $50,000 · Animals
Other$2,625,000Education$400,000Social Science$394,000Public Benefit$250,000Animals$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFLORIDIANS FOR AFFORDABLE RELIABLE ENERGY INC — $645,000 over 2y, 96% of budgetTHE AMERICAN PROMISE INC — $394,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetFLORIDA WATCH INC — $300,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetKEEP OUR CONSTITUTION CLEAN INC — $300,000 over 2y, 59% of budgetFLORIDA CONSUMER ALLIANCE INC — $250,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetJOBKEEPER ALLIANCE — $100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetGREY2K USA WORLDWIDE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

The People Over Profits Florida IncFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The People Over Profits Florida Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization A Better Miami Dade Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
2021222324
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2024

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to A Better Miami Dade Inc?

    Find your warmest path to A Better Miami Dade Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports $31k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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